The lightning keeper
By: Starling Lawrence
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780385601115
Subjects: Fiction; Immigrants; Inventors; Electric power production; General Electric Company
Description: This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914 Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York, recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family.